I say close the judging. Having a deadline was good and meant I actually made the effort to play the games (apart from the ones that needed martian coasters: anyone know where to get them in the UK?) --- David Artman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK, folks! > > The Ice(house) Game Design Competition judging > SHOULD have concluded > last night at midnight local (i.e. my) time. [FYI, > the rules NOW read > "noon" so I can handle it during the day, rather > than on the following > day.] > > Further, I am rather satisfied by the number of > rankings that I have > received (36!). > > However, I do not want our first competition in two > years to suffer any > claims of being "hurried" or any participants to > feel they couldn't have > a voice because they did not have enough time. In > particular, a few > folks mentioned that they could not get to all of > them, for whatever > reason, and had to submit incomplete rankings. In > fact, *I* have not > gotten to all of them and, therefore, won't submit a > ranking at all > (that's just how I roll, in spite of the fact that > our scoring system > doesn't penalize unranked games). > > Therefore, I am asking the Icehouse and the Rabbits > list if anyone wants > the judging to be extended by TWO WEEKS, to October > 1st at noon. Please > don't replay with "whatever others want" or with "I > don't care"--only > reply if you have a firm opinion FOR or AGAINST this > extension. > > Me? The only negative I see is that the winner of > the "Summer 2007" IGDC > will be announced in the fall. Given that the > submission and play MOSTLY > will have occurred in summer, I can deal with this > seeming disparity. > But I could also see folks being anxious, say, to > start providing > feedback while it's fresh (and being unwilling to do > so while judging is > going on). I can also see an argument against > extension based on the > time we will need to design, submit, and judge for > Winter (i.e. every > delay now pushes back its dates, to an extent). > > So I will leave it to y'all: IF you care, reply with > a YES or a NO to > extending to October 1st. Ideally, also provide a > reason FOR or AGAINST > doing so, as that might help those on the fence > decide. I will run this > poll for exactly TWO days (so, basically, we get a > two day extension for > free). > > And folks, remember the "amendment sub-rule" of rule > #5 on the wiki: if > you submit a new ranking, I will DELETE your old > one; thus, you can > adjust or update your ranking repeatedly. Just be > sure that you use the > same e-mail, or else I have to manually associate by > name (whereas Gmail > does that for me, with grouping by sender). > > I will require a simple majority: even one vote more > for or against will > decide it. You have until 2pm Eastern Time on > Thursday the 20th to reply > to either list (not to me, please!). > > Thanks, all; > David > > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/